Henning Larsen Architects is an international

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based in Copenhagen,

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. Founded in 1959 by

Henning Larsen Henning Larsen, Hon. FAIA (20 August 1925 – 22 June 2013) was a Danish architect. He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh and the Copenhagen Opera House. Larsen studied at the Royal Danish Acade ...

, it has around 750 employees. In 2008, it opened an office in

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and in 2011, an office in

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were inaugurated. The company also have offices in New York USA,

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, in the

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, and in Hong Kong, China. It is known for its cultural and educational projects. Among them Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavík that was selected as one of the ten best concert halls in the world by the British magazine

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and won the Mies van der Rohe Award 2013, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. It also designed the Copenhagen Opera. It is part of the Ramboll Group.

Research and sustainability

The practice has employed PhD students from the Technical University of Denmark, who work with different projects related to

sustainable design Environmentally sustainable design (also called environmentally conscious design, eco-design, etc.) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of ecological sustainability ...

. The aim of the collaboration is to implement sustainability in the building design and building components at the very beginning of each project.

Awards

* 1989 Aga Khan Award for the ''Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh'' * 2008 RIBA Award for ''Roland Levinsky Building'' * 2010 LEAF Award for ''The Wave'' (residential category) * 2010 IDA International Design Award (''Architectural Design of the Year'' category) for ''Batumi Aquarium'' * 2011

Civic Trust Award The Civic Trust Awards scheme was established in 1959 to recognise outstanding architecture, planning and design in the built environment. As the longest standing built environment awards scheme in Europe, since 1959, more than 7000 projects have ...

for ''The Wave'' * 2012

for '' Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre'' * 2013

for '' Umea Arts Campus * 2013 Architizer A+ Award (+Light category) for '' Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre'' * 2013

European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award is a prize given biennially by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, 'to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in E ...

for '' Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre'' * 2013 Emirates Glass Leaf Award for '' Harpa – Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre'' (Best Public Building - Culture) * 2013 Emirates Glass Leaf Award for ''Campus Roskilde'' (Best Public Building - Education & Research) * 2014

for ''Campus Roskilde'' * 2015

for '' Mosgaard Museum'' *2015 The International Architecture Award (The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design) for ''

Moesgaard Museum Moesgaard Museum (MOMU) is a Danish regional museum dedicated to archaeology and ethnography. It is located in Beder, a suburb of Aarhus, Denmark. MOMU cooperates with the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Medieval and Renaissance Archaeolo ...

'' *2015

LEAF Award The ABB LEAF Awards is an annual international architectural prize. It recognises innovative architectural design that sets the benchmark for the international architectural community of the next generation. The LEAF Awards program is operated by ...

in the category Urban Design for ''Vinge Train Station'' *2016 Green Good Design Award (The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies) for ''SDU Campus Kolding'' *2016 LEAF Future Building Awards in the category Under Construction for ''Kiruna City Hall''

Exhibitions

* 1999 "The Architect's Studio" at

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located on the shore of the Øresund Sound in Humlebæk, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the most visited art museum in Denmark, and has an extensive permanent collection of modern and con ...

, Humlebaek, Denmark * 2011 "what if...?" at

Utzon Center The Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark, was the last building to be designed by Jørn Utzon, the architect behind the Sydney Opera House. In collaboration with his son Kim, who provided the final construction drawings, he planned the centre not as a ...

, Aalborg, Denmark. The exhibition has also been displayed in Umeå, Munich and at Danish Architecture Centre as a part of the exhibition

References

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Research and sustainability

Awards

Exhibitions

See also

References